All the money spent, all the effort and all the bureaucratic rules involved are not allocating our resources in an efficient way to the highest and best use of those resources which would create the most benefit for the people. Doesn't often feel like there isn't enough money to do the things we'd like to do as a country, like build roads or transit, or improve education or provide a safety net for the unfortunate? Miss allocate all the money and and we don't have any? What a surprise!

In order to reduce the amount of money and effort spent trying to influence those who allocate these opportunities in our present government by influence and reward peddlers we will need to reduce what they can control and give out. This means a move to smaller more local government and more government by principled law rather than administrative rule making in closed door or dimly transparent process.

Accurate Reality: To get rid of money in politics, shrink the goodies allocated by politicians.